Gordon Wood: "Can a revolution conceived mainly as sordid, racist and divisive be the inspiration for a nation?" This is a political question, not a scholarly one. But to extent a revolution should be an inspiration, it's surely a matter of ideas not character of revolutionaries
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It’s somewhat ironic that this issue is most prominent in evangelical voters, when the Bible is filled with critically flawed, but nonetheless reverend, characters.
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I've noted that bias is baked into the Constitution via concepts like the 3/5ths compromise and Amendments speak to our better angels. Even as a child of immigrants, I accept American history, warts and all as my heritage.
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I'm amazed that some take BLM personally, that they need to state their family never owned slaves. Complaining that it means only Black lives matter. When one posted Blue lives matter, I told him I know that he didn't mean no one else mattered.
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Myths. A dishonest or selective account if history results in myths. And a lot of people might be taught some history, others may often serk out selective history which they like knowing (war stories), others may skew to history as supplemental bible material. Partial = Myths.
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Humans want to believe in something pure, higher than just humanity. So their ideals HAVE to BE LARGER than life. Ideals that come from a bed place, a bad intent , horrible people shatter that. It's like " never meet your heroes".
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Cause If you put your faith into it, they NEED to put it into a glorified embellished version of "humanity" cause if it was reality, they would NEVER believe in them. Humans know what they are. It's what they CAN BECOME. Most don't believe in that at all. So yes they need Disney
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Wait, what are you going to tell me about Hamilton now?
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Who are we conspiring to protect by pretending that the founding fathers were not flawed people and that some of their beliefs and actions were not problematic? People are complicated. Why should this be edited out particularly if these beliefs and actions impact history.
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This cannot be stressed enough. Revolutionary ideas were flatly incompatible with slavery and this was recognized by revolutionaries and reactionaries alike. The hypocrisy was obvious and debated at the time. Thus "they didn't know any better" is a false excuse.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates nailed this a while ago. Excusing Thomas Jefferson as a "man of his time" ignores the important debate that he famously participated in. Jefferson knew better and his contemporaries were puzzled that he didn't practice what he preached.https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/the-myth-of-jefferson-as-a-man-of-his-times/265816/ …
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